1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the exemption of state-owned real property from forced 1-3 sale. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Chapter 43, Property Code, is amended by adding 1-6 Section 43.002 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 43.002. EXEMPT PROPERTY. The real property of the 1-8 state, including the real property held in the name of state 1-9 agencies and funds, and the real property of a political 1-10 subdivision of the state are exempt from attachment, execution, and 1-11 forced sale. A judgment lien or abstract of judgment may not be 1-12 filed or perfected against the state, a unit of state government, 1-13 or a political subdivision of the state on property owned by the 1-14 state, a unit of state government, or a political subdivision of 1-15 the state; any such judgment lien or abstract of judgment is void 1-16 and unenforceable. 1-17 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-22 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-23 passage, and it is so enacted. _______________________________ _______________________________ President of the Senate Speaker of the House I certify that H.B. No. 833 was passed by the House on April 3, 1997, by the following vote: Yeas 144, Nays 0, 1 present, not voting. _______________________________ Chief Clerk of the House I certify that H.B. No. 833 was passed by the Senate on May 8, 1997, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0. _______________________________ Secretary of the Senate APPROVED: _____________________ Date _____________________ Governor